This seemed like a good pointless rambling to make a quick visit back to the forgotten blog. One can thank two things I read today for this post.
Earlier today I was reading a devotion from Proverbs 31 Ministries and in short the authors friend and her husband felt God was leading them to foster children but the friends parents as well as others was not in their corner like the friend was expecting or hoping they would be, in fact they was discouraging them to do this. Fast forward to a few days or so later and the author sees the friend again but this time the friend isn't as discouraged, weighted down and when asked why she says she realized she didn't need their permission to do God's will in her life.
So often in life those people that are in pur life whatever label they have well sometimes they don't live up to that label. Or sometimes people just don't have pur back like we thought for sure they would in certain situations. First let me say of course no one is perfect and no one can always be there or live up to a sometimes impossible expectation we may have for them. That's not what this thought is about. I'm sure those people had the authors friends best interest at heart and meant no harm but sometimes we have to take that step of faith especially when we feel God leading us to do something even if it's a simple task. Sometimes in life we don't have who we thought we would in our corner. There are times those we thought would always be there just leave - a long time friend, a spouse, a parent, etc. A big part of my story is how a majority of my life I didn't have a mom little lesser known part is how didn't have other family members too. But God had a plan all along and I have my chosen family (got my real mom, dad and an aunt and got a cousin and a friend that are more like sisters to me- all of whom I annoy the living daylights out of). Now whether it's something like that and I don't know maybe someone doesn't like or see how God knits people in our lives or a situation where you feel God is leading you to do something but you feel like you don't have anyone in your corner like you thought you would. First be like the authors friend and realize you don't need anyone's permission you just need to do God's will. And it may at times get lonely and may not go the way you thought it would but you keep going and I will believe it until I leave this world that God will send people in your life. Maybe it will be just a stranger in passing, maybe a stranger that becomes a friend or maybe even people that become your chosen family. Don't give up a dream, calling, or hope because some around you don't see it.
The second and last thought kind of ties in I suppose because it was a quote that stated something along the lines of I hope your success offends those don't want to see you win. I think I see what it's saying but also at the same time my thought went to I hope not, to be honest with respect I don't really care what they think. If it bothers them that's on them. Of course there are people out there that want to see us fall there are those that will spend all their energy digging a hole trying to make you look bad to try to get you to fall in and be destroyed but those people need to be careful and mindful that they may be ending up digging the hole for themselves. There are people that will lie and do whatever to ease their conscience and again try to make you look bad, again I say they better be careful cause when that comes back on them and I believe one day (be it months or years before it happens) it will come back and knock them down with the same fierce force that they spewed out. People are going to lie, hate, reject, abandon and use us one way or one time (sometimes lots of ways and times) I won't say that there aren't times what pushed me a step forward was to try to get to say I told you so to someone but honestly where I'm at now for sure I don't even care. If you've tried to hold me back or knock me down, just know I will get back up and loose. If you don't want to see me win look away! I'm moving forward not so it can offend those that don't want me to win but I'm moving forward cause I want to get to where I belong, to sit at the table where I belong. I want to succeed in the simple things as never believing the lies that I'm a bother or I'm intruding so that I can move forward not to say I told you so but so I can finally be where I belong. I try to let my focus never even go to those that left, aren't there, want to see me fail, etc I want my time to be spent on and with those that are there and care. The ones that try to knock you down just use that junk they throw and all that dirt to build the steps to get you to where you're going and where you belong and only look back to see how far you've made it.
So if you need the reminder you're going to make it and if you haven't met those people that will be in the corner for you don't you give up and if you believe as I do always remember God is in that corner with you and don't let anyone
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
